GOD WANTS OUR HEARTS

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“These people come near to me with their mouth and honour me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.”

Preachers have a lot of opinions and some funny stories about providing outlines to follow while they teach—especially if the outline has blanks to fill in. Sometimes people are so eager to fill in the next blank, they stop listening for anything else. They show up, sing some worship songs, fill in their blanks, and think their business with God is done for another week. God cautions us about this kind of attitude toward our faith. He desires so much more than a fill-in-the-blank relationship. Although His standards have never changed, and the Ten Commandments have never been revised, He wants more than rule-followers; He wants our hearts. He wants people to love Him because we are grateful for what He has done and want to please Him and serve Him. So, by all means, fill in those blanks on the outline. But don’t let that be the sum total of your relationship with the Lord.

• Allen Jackson